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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by Forge36 »

byecancer21 wrote: post #236

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

There's already a website and you tease with this? Why keep the website private?

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Post by jtmarmon »

Charlieholtz wrote: post #150
wsinks wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was SO CLOSE to finishing the tale about the Officer Spider who ended up free his former employee of his biggest constraint, TIME, but... then it crashed. I really want to finish that story!

Damn! Sorry about that. I’m upping the servers right now. Can’t wait to hear the end of this inspirational tale :)

Should've built it in elixir, I heard it's webscale

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Post by blunte »

joegibbs wrote: post #231
blunte wrote: post #155

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The title image is so reminiscent of Age of Empires ;). No harm there. Is it safe to assume that AoE series was an influence? As it appears to be targeted only for Windows, I will not be able to try it (on Mac). But the premise sounds good and pretty unique! Best of luck with it.

Thank you! Yeah absolutely it was influenced by AoE, more in a thematic sense rather than the gameplay which is more influenced by grand strategies and Total War. Come to think of it, there's really no reason I can't release it on Mac since it's Unreal Engine, apart from me not owning a new model that can run it. If the game's a success (hopefully!) it would definitely be worth getting one so I can build for it.

Based on the spec requirements listed in the Steam store, I think you should be able to target 8 or 16GB M1 Macbook Airs. Everything else is above that. And targeting Intel Macs is pointless.

An M1 Air is $1200ish. So it shouldn't be a burden assuming you have outside income and desire :).

Good luck!

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Post by byecancer21 »

Forge36 wrote: post #261
byecancer21 wrote: post #236

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

There's already a website and you tease with this? Why keep the website private?

It's in German language and legal stuff, although one may enjoy the renderings of numerous corruption-involved public officials. These were made using AnimeGANv2.

https://de.wickepedia.org/Wickepedia:About

The felonious judge is named Wicke so this was thought to be the most hilarious domain name.

It has been kept low-profile on purpose because analytics enabled amazing observability about who talks to whom, and who is particularly nervous about the matter. The caching gets bypassed currently due to tracking cookies, which may explain slowness.

Also should point out the (excellent) criminal evidence has thus far not been made public. The state attorney has zero interest in touching a politically highly sensitive matter obviously, so his hand needs to be forced by means other than simply handing over the evidence....

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Post by mjrbrennan »

ss108 wrote: post #172
mjrbrennan wrote: post #161

I've written one fiction novel and I'm working on another one, and have ideas for the early stages of two others. While I would like to be published one day I don't think it would hurt me too badly if I wasn't. I love writing and the process of breathing life into a story and characters from nothing. I've got my manuscripts listed here in case anyone is interested https://writing.martin-brennan.com/works/#manuscripts

What do you use as a word processor?

I use Word. It's the easiest option and everything that you would want to submit to for short stories (and for novels I assume) expect a Word document. I've seen things like Scrivener but honestly I think that would over-complicate things for me. I can use Word anywhere, I pay for Office 365 so I can use the desktop application or edit in the cloud if I want to.

_Before_ I get into Word I process the words from my brain either by writing in longhand, or by using my typewriter. I use the step from these analogue methods to digital as an initial cleanup phase.

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Post by linksnapzz »

as89 wrote: post #241

Glad to see this thread come back! I'll share something of my own, though it's not a tech project. I've been working on translating Japji Sahib - which is the foundational prayer of the Sikhs - into English poetry. The original is a poem, but most of the existing translations are in prose and use Western religious terminology that's not really appropriate to the original. I just wrapped up a first draft of the transl…

Very nice!

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Post by ghotli »

caleb-allen wrote: post #217
ghotli wrote: post #113

I have a lot of software written, basically just for me but with a bit of work it could be a thing. The core feature is burning through digital lists one item at a time but with as little interaction with a computer as possible. Data only push notification -> text to speech to bone conduction headphones (or really any headphones). Tells me the current task. Two buttons on my wrist. One is next task, one is "toggle re…

Wow, this sounds really cool! What is the main way you create/edit the list items? Is it manual, automated, etc? Could you describe the way you use it to learn new things? I really like the philosophy behind this--seems quite elegant

Thanks! Most of the "how" is shared in another reply. Really it's just an array of strings that keeps a cursor (and technically a stack for interruptions that pop off before returning to the cursor in the list). So posting a fresh list to the service that runs it is a common use case. Loading saved lists, routines, some things have state machines that inform task creation but that complexity I wax and wane finding all that useful.

The book "the checklist manifesto" informed some of this philosophy behind the tool(s). To learn new things specifically is spaced repetition and keeping a backlog of things to dig into. One practice that has stuck is a list of reminders / active ongoing things that I burn through when making a hotlist. If I'm good I'll actually do what I load, if I'm not I'll load it with good intentions and skip things or take it out as the day gets hectic. Nothing really more than you'd do without the one item at a time system.

It's all a work in progress and malleable since it's exclusively mine. If I come up with a better way then maybe that's what it will morph into.

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Post by AlwaysRock »

tessierashpool wrote: post #124
echelon wrote: post #80

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Oof. This is probably most people, too. There need to be more jobs where the interest alignment in work is 100%. Disney animators, Nintendo programmers, audio programming, SpaceX engineers, ML/AI, bioinformatics, ... Rockets, chemicals, machines, visual toys, solving moonshot things, ... Less plumbing and glue code. Less adtech. Less studying and optimizing trivial human interactions that nobody will remember.

there's a lot of jobs like this out there -- and a lot of people working in them -- but you pay a premium for it. I think economists even have a term for it. employers don't have to charge as much when people are willing to take a pay cut to do the work. be careful what you wish for, though. in the entertainment industry, for people like actors and directors, the pay cut is only at the early stages, and unions limit…

The haskell tax.

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Post by bitexploder »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #216
ss108 wrote: post #168

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^^ this Would add: prestige law and government jobs; trying to be an actor; working at Amazon; working as a chef/cook at most restaurants, esp fancy ones--the list is quite long of "passion jobs" that pay poorly and involve all sorts of abuse people wouldn't put up with at other jobs.

working at Amazon is a passion job?

I think more prestige. But yeah, for some people.

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Post by AlwaysRock »

rlayton2 wrote: post #145

I have a small game that I made to experiment with some tech. https://donotplaythisgame.click/ In short, you accrue points while you aren't playing it, but you have to log into actually get the points (similar to "the game", which you just lost). You get your global ranking only after logging in though.

Do you want a high global ranking? Or low? I was ranked 5 after logging in for my first time.
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